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The following are reports of serious problems (eg system lockup) which
were due to smartmontools. There is a "LINUX" and a "FREEBSD" section
below.
LINUX
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You may also wish to search the linux.kernel mailing list for problem
reports concerning smartmontools. Here is the URL:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=smartmontools&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_ugroup=linux.kernel&lr=&num=100&hl=en
SYSTEM: Intel 875WP1-E motherboard with SATA drives on motherboard's SATA ports
PROBLEM: smartd makes NTP time drift
REPORTER: nohez@cmie.com
LINK: http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=Pine.LNX.4.33.0310111545530.1047-100000%40venus.cmie.ernet.in.lucky.linux.kernel
NOTE: When using SATA disks, linux kernel k_smp-2.4.21-108 (SMP because
of hyper-threading) and xntp-4.1.1-177, the server time went
out of sync with system time. Problem goes away when SATA
disks removed.
SYSTEM: Dell servers using AACRAID (SCSI)
PROBLEM: Locked up, needed to be rebooted
REPORTER: drew@eastvan.bc.ca
LINK: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1311313&forum_id=12495
SYSTEM: Box with Promise 20265 IDE-controller (pdc202xx-driver) and > 2.4.18 kernel with ide-taskfile support
PROBLEM: Smartctl locks system solid when used on /dev/hd[ef].
REPORTER: Georg Acher <acher@in.tum.de>
LINK: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1457979&forum_id=12495
NOTE: Lockup doesn't happen with 2.4.18 kernel, and doesn't affect /dev/hd[a-d]
This appears to be a problem with the pdc202xx-driver and has been reported
to the pcdx maintainers. If you enable the the Promise-BIOS (ATA100-BIOS) then
everything will work fine. But if you disable it, then the machine will hang.
SYSTEM: Box with Promise 20262 IDE-controller
PROBLEM: Smartctl locks system solid
REPORTER: Ben Low <ben@bdlow.net>
LINK: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5074201
NOTE: Similar to previous report: Promise Ultra66 2-port card (20262) which, with
linux 2.4.20, suffers from the lockups reported above. But it was
impossible to enable the Promiste BIOS. A kernel patch is referenced
to fix the problem.
SYSTEM: Promise 20265
PROBLEM: Smartctl locks system solid when used on CDROM/DVD device
LINK: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=208964
REPORTER: see above link
NOTE: Problem seems to affect kernel 2.4.21 only.
FREEBSD
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[No reports yet.]